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We consider optimization problems for complex systems in which the cost function has a multivalleyed landscape. We introduce a new class of dynamical algorithms which, using a suitable annealing procedure coupled with a balanced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierluigi Contucci , Cristian Giardina' , Claudio Giberti , Cecilia Vernia

We establish the average-case hardness of the algorithmic problem of exact computation of the partition function associated with the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses with Gaussian couplings and random external field. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-19 David Gamarnik , Eren Kizildag

A huge number of independent true ground-state configurations is calculated for two-, three- and four-dimensional +- J spin-glass models. Using the genetic cluster-exact approximation method, system sizes up to N=20^2,8^3,6^4 spins are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander K. Hartmann

Characterizing the ground-state properties of disordered systems, such as spin glasses and combinatorial optimization problems, is fundamental to science and engineering. However, computing exact ground states and counting their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-06 Yijia Wang , Xuanzhao Gao , Pan Zhang , Feng Pan , Jinguo Liu

I present a new method to analyze Glauber dynamics of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) spin glass model. The method is based on ideas used in the classical kinetic theory of fluids. I apply it to study spin correlations in the high…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Grzegorz Szamel

Ising machines, which are dynamical systems designed to operate in a parallel and iterative manner, have emerged as a new paradigm for solving combinatorial optimization problems. Despite computational advantages, the quality of solutions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-30 Shu Zhou , K. Y. Michael Wong , Juntao Wang , David Shui Wing Hui , Daniel Ebler , Jie Sun

We propose and implement a novel hybrid meta-heuristic optimization algorithm for the identification of non-collinear global ground-states in magnetic systems. The inputs to this optimization scheme are directly from non-collinear density…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-03 Guy C. Moore , Matthew K. Horton , Kristin A. Persson

We introduce a novel quantum spin-glass model, a Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model with a transverse mean-field type random magnet. We rigorously derive the exact expression of the free energy of this model at the entire parameter region. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-07 Naoto Shiraishi

Large numbers of ground states of two-dimensional Ising spin glasses with periodic boundary conditions in both directions are calculated for sizes up to 40^2. A combination of a genetic algorithm and Cluster-Exact Approximation is used. For…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander K. Hartmann

We propose an extended genetic algorithm (GA) with different local environmental conditions. Genetic entities, or configurations, are put on nodes in a ring structure, and location-dependent environmental conditions are applied for each…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-06-22 Daekyung Lee , Beom Jun Kim

We propose a general learning algorithm for solving optimization problems, based on a simple strategy of trial and adaptation. The algorithm maintains a probability distribution of possible solutions (configurations), which is updated…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-30 Kan Chen

The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin-glass model used the replica symmetry method to find the phase transition of the system. In 1979-1980, Parisi proposed a solution based on replica symmetry breaking (RSB), which allowed him to identify the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-11-08 Ali Talebi , Mahsa Bagherikalhor , Behrouz Askari , G. Reza Jafari

We analyze the free energy and the overlaps in the 2-spin spherical Sherrington Kirkpatrick spin glass model with an external field for the purpose of understanding the transition between this model and the one without an external field. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-26 Jinho Baik , Elizabeth Collins-Woodfin , Pierre Le Doussal , Hao Wu

Spin glass systems as lattices of disordered magnets with random interactions have important implications within the theory of magnetization and applications to a wide-range of hard combinatorial optimization problems. Nevertheless, despite…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-28 Fredrik Hasselgren , Max O. Al-Hasso , Amy Searle , Joseph Tindall , Marko von der Leyen

A simple model of a frustrated disordered system is presented. Apart from the (very different) physical interpretation, the model shares many features with that of Sherrington-Kirkpatrick for spin glasses, but, as a consequence of its…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Ferraro

In a previous work we introduced, in the context of gravitational wave science, an initial study on an automated domain-decomposition approach for reduced basis through hp-greedy refinement. The approach constructs local reduced bases of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Franco Cerino , Andrés Diaz-Pace , Emmanuel Tassone , Manuel Tiglio , Atuel Villegas

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a general-purpose algorithm for combinatorial optimization problems whose performance can only improve with the number of layers $p$. While QAOA holds promise as an algorithm that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann , Leo Zhou

Following an original idea of F. Guerra, in this notes we analyze the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model from different perspectives, all sharing the underlying approach which consists in linking the resolution of the statistical mechanics of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-04-10 Adriano Barra , Gino Del Ferraro , Daniele Tantari

We study the Ising spin glass on random graphs with fixed connectivity z and with a Gaussian distribution of the couplings, with mean \mu and unit variance. We compute exact ground states by using a sophisticated branch-and-cut method for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Frauke Liers , Matteo Palassini , Alexander K. Hartmann , Michael Juenger

We propose an expanded spin-glass model, called the quantum Ghatak-Sherrington model, which considers spin-1 quantum spin operators in a crystal field and in a transverse field. The analytic solutions and phase diagrams of this model are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-04-09 Do-Hyun Kim